Think Tank Review - September 2020

• Think Tank Review - September 2020

The Think Tank reports focus on the European Council July agreement for the Next Generation EU recovery plan and the 2021-2027 European budget, testifying to the collective and internal solidarity of all member states. The papers discuss the corona crisis as a challenge in the euro area, the financial fragility of European households in Covid-19 times and how to promote the EU’s international leadership in health. Debt mutualisation, a green, competitive and resilient EU economy, the EU’s digital sovereignty and the modernisation of EU trade defence instruments are also discussed in this issue.

COVID-19
• Germany’s corona Presidency: Germany’s leadership role and European partners’ expectations
• Debt sharing after Covid-19 : how the direct involvement of EU institutions could impact the recovery path of a member state
• Plan de relance européen: place aux obligations vertes et sociales
• In sickness and in health: European cooperation during the coronavirus crisis
• Four implications of the Covid-19 pandemic for the EU asylum and migration policy
• What the European Council's MFF recovery deal tells us about the EU's global ambition
• Covid-19: reaffirming cyber as a 21st century geopolitical battleground
• Post-Covid multilateralism: how to save humanity from hell?

Economic and financial affairs
• Increasing the international role of the euro: a long way to go
• European debt mutualisation: finding a legitimate balance between solidarity and responsibility mechanisms
• The role of fiscal rules in relation with the green economy
• The European Investment Bank: becoming the EU climate bank

Employment and social affairs
• Policies to ensure access to affordable housing
• EU public health policy
• The post-2020 European disability strategy

Environmental issues
• What should we make of the just transition mechanism put forward by the European Commission?
• Getting serious about the European Green Deal with a carbon border tax

Foreign affairs
• Differentiated cooperation in European foreign policy: the challenge of coherence
• The EUs chemical weapons sanctions regime
• The EUs strategic compass for the security and defence
• The use of cyberspace in the context of hybrid warfare: means, challenges and trends
• Fostering Europe’s strategic autonomy: a new agenda for trade and investment

General affairs (budget/cohesion policy)
• Overcoming the net position thinking in EU member states
• European territorial cooperation (Interreg) 2021-2027
• How EU funds tackle economic divide in the European Union

Justice and home affairs
• Hate speech and hate crime in the EU and the evaluation of online content regulation approaches
• The European asylum system: a necessary case of differentiation
• Climate change and migration

Transport / Telecommunications / Energy
• Getting the digital services act right: 3 recommendations for a thriving EU digital ecosystem
• A vision for digital Europe: from the taming of unruly platforms to a new digital humanism
• Europe's digital sovereignty: from rulemaker to superpower in the age of US-China rivalry

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